Paul-Hervé Vintrou

Paul-Hervé VINTROU, founder of Media Coaching Group, is also Chairman of Media Consulting Group, consultancy and coaching company, specialising in media. He has proven experience as a manager of television, audiovisual production, internet, press and publishing companies. He also works with business executives.

He has a wide range of experience at an international level: missions for the European Union, internal organisations and the media in many different countries (Germany, England, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, China, Ivory Coast, Croatia, Spain, United States, France, Guinea-Bissau, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Mali, Morocco, Montenegro, Niger, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Togo, Tunisia, Ukraine, Kosovo.)

He speaks German and regularly teaches and coaches in English.

International training followed by audiovisual production

After graduating in Economics in Germany (Europäisches Institut für Unternehmungsführung, Frankfurt - 1972) then the European Business School (Paris and London - 1973), he started at Vidéogrammes de France, as a researcher, progressing to Director of Marketing and then Deputy Director (television programme production).

Management of press companies

In 1979, he joined the Bayard group as Sales Network Director and then went on to become Secretary General at Notre Temps, where he designed a new editorial plan and developed advertising and other products.

Editor of L'Expansion, and Harvard Business Review (83-84) he introduced France to the more sophisticated techniques of the international press and organised Forums de L’Expansion.

Human Resources in the media

Chief Executive of Sirca (1985), a recruitment agency specialising in media, he developed the company internationally, namely in Spain.

Eighteen years developing media

He started at Canal+ in 1986 as Subscriptions Director, establishing a relationship with viewers across the globe; he went on to create two television magazines: Canal+ Magazine and Canalsat. He oversaw programme coordination and created la Journée de la Télé. He also played a role in launching channels abroad (Germany, Spain, Tunisia).

From 1994, as Deputy Director of commercial activity at Canal+, he led several subsidiaries, namely television channels Rapido TV and Canal Club (for which he was responsible for launching), Club Hachette Vidéo and Canal+ éditions which published around fifteen books per year. He was also the manager of magazines Studio Magazine and Onze Mondial.

From 1996 to 1998 he was Director then CEO at Numéricâble (CA 120 M€ - 900 people), the cable operator where he created the brand and built the corporate objectives.

 

For ten years he was in charge of a course at the Université Paris XIII.

Since January 2008 he has been an Expert at Paris Court of Appeal (audiovisual, television, cinema, press). He is also Secretary General of the National Association of Legal Experts in cultural, communication and media activities (Compagnie Nationale des Experts Judiciaires en activités culturelles, communication et médias).

His specific coaching training includes: International Mozaïk, Robert Dilts, Ecole Parisienne de Gestalt.

 

Consultant and coach since 1999, he created and runs Media Consulting Group.